This weekend was an adventure on Making This Home – the sort of adventure that isn’t followed by a bunch of happy exclamation marks. Did you try to come visit? Did you get absolutely nothing? I’m so sorry.

Our server crashed. It fell harder than any crash I’ve known; Making This Home and hundreds of other websites vanished. I kept calling my brother in a panic for several hours (he’s my server guy). While we’re literally in the same time zone right now, it’s like he’s in Hawaii and I’m back in Berlin. And let me tell you, he really was just hanging loose about the whole thing. “Our sites will come back, they’ll come back,” he kept reassuring me.

Martin prepped me for the worst – disappearing comments, disappearing posts, nonexistant pictures. At 2:30 in the morning, my brother sent me an email when the server was supposed to be back up (I was asleep). The server ended up losing everything.

Now thanks to my fab brother and husband, we’re back up because of their wonderful backup skills (and teaching me to backup). The only thing I lost were pictures from the last few months.

And now while I’m disappointed to lose so many things and be sitting here feeling all buggy eyed as I reinsert pictures, I have to tell you a secret. I had a really great weekend. I got the chance to begin working on some projects that I’ve been wanting to start all summer. It was so easy to turn away from the computer and have an unplugged day. A crashed server? I guess it’s not ALL bad.

We ate a homemade lunch with fresh bread, Martin brought gingerbread for everyone at the airport, and I met this neighbor for the first time (he lives on my mile long walk to the mailbox and always acts so shy).

Thank you for being so patient with us this weekend. I’ll be working on adding pictures again. If you run across anything funky, please please let me know. Hope you all had an amazing weekend full of creativity and good things.

You’re the best.

Katie